Thread 128050971

How do you organise your music?

It seems doing it in a way that is usable is not an easy feat.

>>128050971 (OP)
musicbee

>usable
for what? obviously listening, but where all do you listen to music: in the car? at work? at the gym?

It depends on the medium. I used to have a lot of cds and I’d have them loosely categorised by genre, so metal together alternative together hip hip together pop together sort of thing and usually I’m not going to go for a specific record but more of a mood thing when I’m selecting something to listen to so that works for me.
Alphabetical is the obvious way to go if you’re specifically looking to listen to a particular record

>>128050971 (OP)
Windows Media Player
>>128051027
I work in a car and have around 5 hours to listen to music or whatever six nights each week.

E:\Music\Artist/Composer\Album
all tags are correct, fb2k does the rest

>>128051519
as someone who switched to linux mint bc i didnt want to "upgrade" to win11, i genuinely miss WMP.
rhythmbox doesnt compare

alphabetical by artist than album?

>>128053197
wait nvm I actually do the albums in order by year, but yeah artists are alphabetical, ive got them all downloaded on the harddrive, probably like 200+ gigs

>>128050971 (OP)
>~/Music/Album Artist/(Year) Album Name
This way albums are both chronological and alphabetical within an artist folder. It's not perfect, but it's easy to be consistent and deterministic. Any organization after that should be a media player's job.
>>128051105
>categorised by genre
This has always felt like a fool's errand to me. Genre's aren't especially concrete, change over time, and can have different meanings from person to person.
>>128052429
There isn't a stellar music player for Linux that I've seen. Strawberry is okay but buggy.

>>128053365
>Genre's aren't especially concrete, change over time, and can have different meanings from person to person
thats why you use broad categories of your own choosing. then when you want to listen to, say, techno, you have your media player show all the things you categorise as techno

>>128050971 (OP)
Top-listed descriptor on RYM page

my music folder is a huge fucking mess and its been like that for years and it keeps growing
and i am NOT even gonna bother organizing it FUCK THAT

>>128054255
No one will have any idea what that means in ten years.